Everyone from Miley Cyrus to The Weeknd Surprised Fans With New Music This Christmas

So this is Christmas. And what have you done? This year, if you’re a musical icon of some repute, you’ve gone ahead and surprised your fans with new music that is vaguely dark in nature and, more often than not, makes pointed references to marijuana. Let’s review the fresh, smoky holiday dirges that everyone from Miley Cyrus to LCD Soundsystem has gifted to the world over the past few days:

Miley Cyrus, “My Sad Christmas Song”

Backstory: With a little help from her friend Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips—a sentence that never stops being slightly strange—Cyrus released “My Sad Christmas Song,” a gloomy track about being alone on Christmas and also being sexually attracted to Santa.

Darkest lyric: “There’s no one in your phone/You feel close enough to call/Christmas will crush your soul.”

Is there a weed reference in this song? No, but there’s this gem: “Christmas can wreck your head/Like some listless awkward sex/So you refuse to leave your bed.”

The Weeknd, “Low Life” (with Future)

Backstory: This is a new collaboration between The Weeknd and Future about how they’re, as they put it, “always repping for that low life,” i.e., taking lots of drugs in various fancy locales. As it’s sung by The Weeknd, it’s innately melancholy.

Radiohead, “Spectre”

We may never know why the minds behind Spectre chose Sam Smith’s theme over Radiohead’s, but we do know that this song is a) gorgeous and b) so sad that it makes us want to refuse to leave our beds, LCD Soundsystem-style.